Avonhead Road

316 reports at 23 addresses in Burnside, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 255 separate days somebody filed something about it.

316 reports 23 addresses255 days reported onfrom the air, then 15 documents carry the namethe 215th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Avonhead Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Burnside.

From the air, then

Avonhead Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Avonhead Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Avonhead Road from the air, 1975-1979 — **1975-1979** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The addresses on it

What got reported

Trees & parks, 125 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 59 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 51 reports
Water & drains, 27 reports
Everything else, 21 reports
Roads & footpaths, 16 reports
Vehicles & parking, 13 reports
Animals & pests, 4 reports

Year by year

2016, 11 reports
2017, 6 reports
2018, 5 reports
2019, 13 reports
2020, 18 reports
2021, 13 reports
2022, 37 reports
2023, 60 reports
2024, 78 reports
2025, 40 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 15 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

Local and General. (Star, 05 November 1870) · Papers Past, 5 Nov 1870
…were read and confirmed the following tenders were received for forming a portion of the avonhead road claridge 14s per chain rennell j4s foster 13s merrin 20s leatham 12s 6d accepted the board direc…
Page 10 Advertisements Column 6 (Evening Post, 08 February 1923) · Papers Past, 8 Feb 1923
…oad north beaoh new brighton 33 mrs t smythe 25 wllberry street woolston 34 miss m manson avonhead road upper riccarton christchiireh 35 mrs m gilpin governors bay christchurch 36 miss c stranag-haii…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Evening Post, 15 September 1931) · Papers Past, 15 Sept 1931
…pictures ist prize mrs hughesjohnson 74 heads road gonville 2nd prize mrs walcot wood 136 avonhead road christchurch highly commended mrs walcot wood 136 avonhead road christchurch wool rugs ist prize…
BEST OF LUCK" (Evening Post, 30 October 1934) · Papers Past, 30 Oct 1934
…a 53803 last day castleeliffe a 47511 viva villa 571 mamikati roarl epsom 876126 c austin avonhead road christchurch a 40132 103 tanpo a 34232 best of luck hamilton c230d0 best of luck auckland 836523…
LIST OF CIVIL UNION · New Zealand Gazette, 23 Jan 2007
…rrence William, 95A Randolph Street, Woolston, Christchurch.Johnstone, Sonia Kumeroa, 275 Avonhead Road, Avonhead, Christchurch.Jones, Christopher Paul, 36A Camberwell Place, Avonhead, Christchurch.Jo…
LIST OF CIVIL UNION · New Zealand Gazette, 25 Jan 2008
…rrence William, 95A Randolph Street, Woolston, Christchurch.Johnstone, Sonia Kumeroa, 275 Avonhead Road, Avonhead, Christchurch.Jones, Christopher Paul, 36A Camberwell Place, Avonhead, Christchurch.Jo…
No Asset Procedures · New Zealand Gazette, 30 Oct 2008
…e), 36A Patten Street, Avonside, Christchurch – 18 October 2008.Foley, Glenn Edward, 104A Avonhead Road, Avonhead, Christchurch – 20 October 2008.Frisken, Ruby Elizabeth (also known as Williams, Ruby…
LIST OF CIVIL UNION CELEBRANTS · New Zealand Gazette, 30 Jan 2009
…rrence William, 95A Randolph Street, Woolston, Christchurch.Johnstone, Sonia Kumeroa, 275 Avonhead Road, Avonhead, Christchurch.Jones, Christopher Paul, 36A Camberwell Place, Avonhead, Christchurch.Jo…
LIST OF CIVIL UNION CELEBRANTS · New Zealand Gazette, 29 Jan 2010
…rrence William, 95A Randolph Street, Woolston, Christchurch.Johnstone, Sonia Kumeroa, 275 Avonhead Road, Avonhead, Christchurch.Jones, Christopher Paul, 36A Camberwell Place, Avonhead, Christchurch.Jo…
LIST OF CIVIL UNION CELEBRANTS · New Zealand Gazette, 31 Jan 2011
…rrence William, 95A Randolph Street, Woolston, Christchurch.Johnstone, Sonia Kumeroa, 275 Avonhead Road, Avonhead, Christchurch.Jones, Christopher Paul, 36A Camberwell Place, Avonhead, Christchurch.Jo…
LIST OF CIVIL UNION CELEBRANTS · New Zealand Gazette, 27 Jan 2012
…rrence William, 95A Randolph Street, Woolston, Christchurch.Johnstone, Sonia Kumeroa, 275 Avonhead Road, Avonhead, Christchurch.Jones, Christopher Paul, 36A Camberwell Place, Avonhead, Christchurch.Jo…
LIST OF CIVIL UNION CELEBRANTS · New Zealand Gazette, 30 Jan 2013
…rrence William, 95A Randolph Street, Woolston, Christchurch.Johnstone, Sonia Kumeroa, 275 Avonhead Road, Avonhead, Christchurch.Jones, Christopher Paul, 36A Camberwell Place, Avonhead, Christchurch.Jo…

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Waimairi Stream stream · 68 m away Burnside Park shelter · 37 m away Burnside Park set of steps · 47 m away Burnside Park footbridge · 55 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Avonhead Road in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Avonhead Road & State Highway 73, 38 crashes pinned to the pairing, 1 killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.